From: Steve Clamage [stephen.clamage@sun.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 09:16
To: undisclosed-recipients
Subject: 2003 Five-Year Maintenance Review

To: C++ committee
Message c++std-all-2487

According to
	http://www.incits.org/archive/2003/in030054/in030054.htm
J16 needs to reaffirm or withdraw the 1998 C++ standard.  I got an
extension on the due date so we can vote in the April meeting
instead of having to do a letter ballot in March.

We are in the process of issuing a Techncial Corregendum.  INCITS
will issue the updated standard, with the TC incorporated, as a
revised US standard, separately from our reaffirmation of the
existing standard.

Regarding work on a new standard, J16 has two options:

1.  Continue as a Type I (International) project.  We then need to
issue a new project proposal:
	http://www.incits.org/sd3.htm
The new standard then goes through two national reviews, a CD and
FCD, as we did for the original standard.  The advantage of this
process is getting feedback from the public.

2.  Vote to change our project to type L.  In that case, ISO issues
the standard, with J16 being only a TAG to WG21.  ANSI automatically
adopts the ISO standard with no national reviews.  The advantage of
this process is that less work is involved, particularly for the
officers of J16. :-)

We don't need to decide on options 1 or 2 right away.

We will vote at the April meeting to affirm or withdraw the
existing standard.

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Steve Clamage, stephen.clamage@sun.com